Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal now totals over 100 deployed weapons, a doubling of its stockpile over the past several years, The Washington Post reports.

Experts say that after years of approximate weapons parity, Pakistan has now edged ahead of India. India is estimated to have 60 to 100 weapons.

Four years ago, the Pakistani arsenal was estimated at 30 to 60 weapons. “They have been expanding pretty rapidly,” Albright said. Based on recently accelerated production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium, “they could have more than doubled in that period,” with current estimates of up to 110 weapons, he said.

Shaun Gregory, director of the Pakistan Security Research Unit at Britain’s University of Bradford, put the number at between 100 and 110.

Some Pakistani officials have intimated they have even more. But just as the US has a vested interest in publicly playing down the total, Pakistan sees advantage in “playing up the number of weapons they’ve got,” Gregory said. “They’re at a disadvantage with India with conventional forces,” in terms of both weaponry and personnel.

Those figures make Pakistan the world’s fifth-largest nuclear power, ahead of “legal” powers France and Britain.

While Pakistan has produced more nuclear-armed weapons, India is believed to have larger existing stockpiles of such fissile material for future weapons. That long-term Indian advantage, Pakistan has charged, was further enhanced by a 2008 US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement. The administration has deflected Pakistan’s demands for a similar deal.

Brig. Gen. Nazir Butt, defence attache at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, said the number of Pakistan’s weapons and the status of its production facilities are confidential. “Pakistan lives in a tough neighbourhood and will never be oblivious to its security needs,” Butt said. “As a nuclear power, we are very confident of our deterrent capabilities.”

An escalation of the arms race in South Asia poses a dilemma for the Obama administration, which has worked to improve its economic, political and defence ties with India while seeking to deepen its relationship with Pakistan as a crucial component of its Afghanistan war strategy. The administration is caught between fears of proliferation or possible terrorist attempts to seize nuclear materials and Pakistani suspicions that the US aims to control or limit its weapons programme and favours India.

The level of US concern was reflected during last month’s White House war review, when Pakistan’s nuclear security was set as one of two long-term strategy objectives there, along with the defeat of al Qaeda, according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“The administration is always trying to keep people from talking about this knowledgeably,” said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security and a leading analyst on the world’s nuclear forces. “They’re always trying to downplay” the numbers and insisting that “it’s smaller than you think.”

Can anymore tell me why any country which already has 60+ nuclear weapons will try and add to its tally….whether India or Pakistan will be in a position to fight after being hit by 60+ nuclear bomb…Its nice to be patriotic but just think if either country uses any nuclear bomb,whether the other will keep quite..Both country has enough nuclear bomb to take the other side to 200-300 yrs back..its foolish on the part of both the country which is having so much hunger and poverty to expend so much money on nuclear warheads.Recommend

30 weapons were more than enough, they should have spent the rest of the money on welfare instead, inefficient allocation of resources. Strangely, the biggest threat Pakistan faces is from within, rendering all this nuclear power worthless.Recommend

wow.. we have enough money to make that many bombs? i’m sure those weapons are filled with enriched “organic fertilizer” in place of uranium. the extra money allocated for uranium has been transfered to the president’s welfare account :PRecommend

@Vasan. Yes it does. It does provide a sense of security and above all, it contributes to a balance of power in South Asia. But this is not a race or a competition between India and Pakistan. Both countries only push up their nuclear development to be at par with each other in terms of nuclear power.

@ Ali: Israel has the USA behind its back…and the US has more than 50% of the worlds nuclear assets plus the ‘allies’ and puppet regimes it controls in every part of the globe. Thats quite enough for them i think.

Recall Russia’s ‘Bloody Sunday‘ when Czar was asked by hungry and poor people for bread he sarcastically said “Why bread, let them have cakes instead”. This was not taken well by people and Czar was executed right there in public.
A very similar situation is arising in Pakistan with millions of poor and hungry people. Here Govt will say “Why bread, let them have nuclear dust”. And another ‘Bloody Sunday’ will follow soonRecommend

@Nat:
We are proud of this. No doubt currently our country has been going through a tough time, but we are positive that they will get resolved. Furthermore, we are not the only nation strengthening our nuclear capabilities. We are a responsible nation and we are paying a price for this in terms of terrorism.
Not to mention that we will make more and they are in safe hands. All of us know that who will be blown.

We have aitum bums – wah bhai wah
We are broke and destitute- wah bhai wah

Our strategic assets keep blowing our innocent
and our strategy is to keep building more bums

Wah Bhai Wah

We cherish the murderers and shower them with rose petals
and the whole nation sits when thousands get raped

But we must tell the kuffars of US of A
that we are sovereign and deserve respect

Dont worry about the atrocities and minorities
We dont care about anyones welfare

so long as we have aitum bums
No one dare lift a finger at us

We can kill millions more with these aitum bums
and set alight the cities and towns of innocent ones
Who cares when we cant feed our naked and poor
Well done Pak afwaj, we have now something to cheer
Aitum bums zindabad
Pakistan zindabad
Wah bhai wah
Lets all celebrate and sing in chorus
We have 100 aitum bums – la la hmm hmm ha haa

dear friends tell me one thing if pakistan make nuclear weapons what india,russia,israel,america are they all making toys we are all same look when they use one die take another so what you think is this world waiting for us to distory the nature and humanity i am not with any country but just wana say after using these nuclear weapons and bomb we kill each other on diffrent names but we die all nothing survive then again the time came the history begins think about that.Recommend

This is bit wired but point to be noted
If someone is spending the money in proper manner and getting the results is Pak Army.
Although they are not meant to but they can lead Pakistan towards prosperity.
Why don’t we trust our army and let them deal with issues where they can.Recommend

And they wonder why no one wants to aid them. The announcement of the accelerated nuclear programme came while the flood was happening. Nice motivation to people to donate? Yeah, Pakistan has money for nukes, but not its poor. Let’s donate, its our duty?

Then we heard that millions of people still don’t have shelter six months down from the flood and around the same time we hears about the Parliament lodges or whatever fancy stuff they are planning.

Then, last few days we heard about a “humanitarian crisis of epic proportions” in Sindh and comparisons with African famines, while the minister was talking about being able to export wheat.

It seems increasingly, that the job of the people is to hate the west, the job of the west is to rescue the people and the job of the government is to ensure their own power, comfort and money regardless of what the people go through or the west wants.Recommend

@Usman Ahmad:
What comments do you want from India? We are shivering in our boots at the thought of a nuclear armed Pakistan with a perpetual and institutionalized hatred for us. But wait, we were shivering about that over 70 nukes ago. Not news any more.Recommend

@Abdullah Zaidi:
No, but a nuclear bomb can get rid of a lot of hungry people, if not the hunger itself. Perhaps the government thinks that as long as the problem is solved, it will not matter?Recommend

@Usman Ahmad, no comments from India but definitely lots of pity and sympathy, that how mislead and under educated you are to not even listen to comments from our Pakistani brethren that increasing the count of nuclear warhead is not going to tilt balance, seriously use your brain, when the nations can be obliterated by just 5 to 6 of warheads what worth will the rest 110 + nukes be ? Most of the countries in world including India realize this and hence use the nuclear fuel for electricity instead of packing it in a tin container. So my dear brother, no matter how hatred you have against thy neighbor at least have love for your own people and start questioning your self do you seriously want to take pride of being nation with million nukes but not jobs and no economic prowess or start being constructive for the sake of your own development and progress. Instead of we (India and Pakistan) spend on arms couldn’t we use that to develop few more roads between India and Pakistan and have system like European Union where we have no boundaries and live in harmony. This is not just the message or request to Pakistan but also to bully heads in Indian political theatre. Hopefully our future generation never have to face a nuclear war, that is all I would hope.Recommend

doesnt make a big difference as whether you have 3 or 100 .
firstly you would never use it and unfortunately had to do then at max 1-3 as by the time both countries would have mutual annihilation.Recommend

@Pervaiz:
I pity your ignorance about “Balance of Power” in South Asia. I wonder whether people know how countries get power, By economy, blackmailing with terrorists or with Nukes. For your info, India does not consider Pakistan equal at all and the world agrees with that.Recommend

Can some of the vain people we have from India on this blog understand that they have more poor people than Pakistan does? I love it when you guys talk about terrorists, I guess terrorizing Kashmir is done by aliens from Mars? Such double standards, there is no difference between the US, Israel, and India. Sure our politicians are the wrath of hell, but we know that, and we aren’t vain. Understand that you too live in a country where there is tremendous illiteracy, has a huge lower socio income group, are supported by the US and Israel and without their support, and your double standards and hypocritical behavior (which you call diplomacy), India would have HUGE problems. Why do you guys talk about India as though its paradise? Snap! Wake up! Not everything is Bollywood!!! And if we have a lack of control on our nukes like most of you imply, then you’d better stay awake at night. Recommend

Its a sad state of affairs whether its coming from pakistan or the other side of border. Lets pray to God Almighty and hope that sanity prevails and the poor peopole of both the nations get reprieved.Recommend

@Vasan
No, don’t pity us, or our so called “ignorance”. Balance of power huh? If you’re so big, why don’t you invade us? Because you cannot, because you never will be able to. This, Mr Vain, is balance of power. Recommend

Get you facts right. Over 75% of Indians live below the $2 poverty line vs. 60% for Pakistan… In absolute figures, there are equivalent of 5 times Pakistani population living on less than $2 per day… the relative and absolute poverty in India is worst in the world!

Not even a single nuclear bomb has been fired since world war 2 .Non sense for any country with such a weak economy to have that. It’s like an elephant in beggar’s home
Don’t be-fool your people Spend precious aid collected with such a humiliating way wisely. Recommend

As far as education and health is concerned, we must curb the Rs 1 trillion/year of corruption in public organizations and get all big fist in the tax net, and allocate more resources to these two most important public services… it might me hard, but it has to done, there is no way out for the politicians now but to start acting in public interest, and i am already seeing some changing trends towards better governance, thanks to the media and the supreme court for starters… during the last 2 years of the current government, i foresee many positive changes for the sake of winning the elections, which despite having a skewed objective will help align the country in the right direction… i am still very hopeful!Recommend

RH
Thanks for reminding our problems. Yes we do have problems. We dont deny it. We are working hard to solve it in our own way. We dont go around spawning terror camps and terrorizing neighbours , we dont go around begging to increase our nuclear aresenal. If I write more, it will be called Pak bashing. Pl look into the mirror. We have never denied our problems.We question the wisdom of spending on nukes both by India and Pakistan at the cost of poor people.Recommend

Its sad that most Indian comments reflect the same mentality that led us to part ways in 1947.
Guys, this is not a race in which anyone is the winner, but as long as one is in the race, the other one has to be too. We have no doubts that if India had the bomb and Pakistan didn’t, we’d all be pressed into a military domination. The example of oppression in Kashmir is all too real for us to believe any smoke-screen about Indian “brotherly” love. It would be more like Big Brother from 1984. Muslims in India have been oppressed as a class, where they are now disproportionally under-educated, unemployed, and poorer. I have no hate for India. May all Indians grow prosperous, live in good health, and be safe. But I have no illusions. The snide comments by Indians here makes me glad we have Pakistan, and we have the Nukes to keep Pakistan safe.

No more were required. From day 1 the programme was to deter India, and the already existing ones proved to serve the purpose when India threatened us in past (but couldn’t do anything depsite moving a large number of army units :P ).
But no more, no more are needed, its waste of money now. Recommend

@RH..which world you are living??US,Israel,India etc etc ..all (except Pakistan) are terrorist…What you guys are doing in Baloochistan ???Situation in Baloochistan is 100 times worst than Kashmir…1000s are missing??why?? where they have gone?? Before pointing fingers on others ,think about yourself…Recommend

Someone wanted more comments from Indians it seems! Well the lack of Indian comments probably reflect the same sentiment that may be Indian’s dont care if Pak has 30 or 300 nukes. Pak has an aggressive first use policy, but one small misadventure can easily destroy it. I think Indians have left behind the Pak baggage long back and there are changes in political mindset too. Indians are more worried about economy than war. good to know Pak spending its billions of poor starving taxpayers money, and funds begged from international market on bombs. Keep going… pak is not a threat for India any more. Recommend

this adding up of nukes (if true) don’t really add up to the present equation of economic turmoil, however if we consider the weapons buying supree which india has undertaken including hundreds of sukho warplanes, along with the soon to be announced 124 multirole aircraft for the airforce and the nuclear submarine being inducted by the navy with plans to induct aircraft carrier in few years, presents us with a very bleak picture in regards to the conventional balance between both nations.
also we must not forget the recent pitch by USA which is in line with granting india membership of NSG, with USA providing india with a nuclear deal. this would enable them to pileup there nuke arsenal at much faster pace.
we should also remember 1971 incident and the threats of “surgical strikes” is not a distant memory.
considering all the above, Pakistan is only left with a single option of adding up the nukes to defend itself.Recommend

@Kamal
Obviously not in Bollywood! I’m not claiming we don’t have issues with elements that are terrorists. But you sure think India doesn’t have a terrorism issue, that is lard! And again, hence proven, you are vain. True terrorists are Israel, true terrorists are financed by the US, and true terrorists are those who have captured Kashmir against the will of the people. This is the truth. Now go watch another movie, enter dreamland, and fixate on the opinion that India is the Mother Theresa of the universe. Recommend

Please tell me what happened to the Soviet Union after it tried to keep up in an arms race with the US?

In 1980’s, Soviet Union had 35,000 nuclear warheads while US had 15,000, and yet, the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia is a shell of it’s former self and now had to beg the US to agree to the START treaty to bring warheads down to 1500 each.

Nuclear weapons do not bring peace. They are expensive and require constant maintenance. We already have 60-100… Why need more?

Do you think 60 nuclear weapons to attack India is few? will 100 give us security? Will 500?

What will the point of us having 200 nukes while India has 100 be? We will still destroy each other.

China only maintains 400 warheads. This is all they need to destroy every major city/country on earth. Why spend money on more nukes to match US or Russia? If you use 1 nuke, you must use all.

The money we wasted on nukes could have gone to our brothers and sisters still in dire straits after the floods, it could feed our hungry children, pay for our roads and infrastructure or improve our educational facilities.

Heck, even buying 1 million guns for our soldiers would be better than more nukes. Just ask US and Russia how expensive it is to maintain nukes. Constant security also needed to prevent extremist from taking 1.

Even if we have 500 nukes and India only has 100, we all still die in a nuclear war.Recommend

@Vidyut:
The perpetual and institutionalized hatred is mutual, unless you are trying to claim Indians love Pakistan. I find it deeply amusing that our Indian friends are on a Pakistani newspaper’s website, responding to Pakistani idiots who are congratulating their own country over a think tank’s report. The misplaced sense of patriotism aside, fact remains that nobody can accurately estimate the number of weapons either country has, or could produce, in a given time.

For all your whinging Indian government figures, claiming Pakistan is ‘hypnotically obsessed’ with India (which incidentally is true enough), please don’t absolve yourselves of the same crime. Your government went nuclear as a response to Pakistan’s testing of the Ghauri missile. Pakistan being a smaller country, with a smaller military, is fully justified in being obsessed with India. But what excuse does India have to continuously spend a ridiculous amount of money and resources on your military and nuclear program whilst more than half a billion people languish in abject poverty? Recommend

*WHY WE NEED THIS?
*
Before 1999 India was in doubt abt Nuclear power of Pakistan so we get War threat and even slodiers on borders more than normal. But these Nuke weapons gave the answer of all those threats.

THERE ARE LOT OF THINGS WHICH U DONT WANT TO DO BUT DUE TO STUPID ATTITUDE OF OTHERS’ U HAVE TO DO FOR UR SAFETY.

Pk started its Nuclear program in 1974. But what about 1971?

Can any body forget the words of INDIRA GANDHI about SAKOOT E DHAKA?

**TODAY WE HAVE TOOK REVENGE OF 1000 YEARS SLAVERY.

That time we had so called friendship with India, no Hostile relations, A very Happy TASHQAND AGREEMENT**, Indian movies were being played in Pakistani cinemas, then why INDIRA GANDHI felt to say that?

Fact is this: what ever sweet words u speak, clear enemy can not become friend.

1000 years of collaboration couldnt absorb Islam into HINDUISM. and that is our IDEOLOGY.Recommend

@Vasan
No you don’t, you don’t question Indian spending on nukes, you generalize that we set up terror camps, whereas you, you set up love shacks?! Incorrect, I don’t believe for one minute that the people of India look at themselves’ before pointing a finger at Pakistan. If you have any idea of what we feel about our corrupt politicians, then you would understand which people have their head on straight. We’ve never given power to the Mullahs and have bearded fanatics who want to kill and bomb in our top echelon, but who has had the evil BJP in power before? To the ashes with a democracy like your’s. If you can remind us of our problems, then have the gall to take it in your face when we spell out your problems. And you have many many more than you can actually comprehend. Incredible India! And regarding your comments on Pakistan bashing on a Pakistani website, duh! You are bashing Pakistan, expect nothing worse in return. Recommend

Due to Nuke weapons America will try to avoid full war between india and pakistan.
and india knows that war will destroy her ECONOMY, due to HOLLY SHOWERS of President ZARDARI we have forgotten which sparrow is named as ECONOMY.Recommend

Kindly learn how to coup with a burning warship while your drunk naval officers along with their families and civilians are having a boat cruise on it.. and then educate us on taking care of our nuclear aresnal.. also dont give us A.Q Khans example.. we all know how India used a Canadian reactor to built its nuclear program and how countries like Israel came up with the a-bomb.

@Shoaib Pervaiz:
hmm..This is indeed disturbing news. Time for india to ramp up to 500 or 1000 warheads. I think the govt of pak not involved, this shows how powerful army is within pakistan. If there’s a war, its all over. So be it.Recommend

In spite of the 2009 $7.5 billion aid package for Pakistan legislation stipulating regular assessment of whether any money is spend directly or indirectly on Pakistan’s nuclear program, Pakistan’s deployed nuclear weapons are estimated to have cross 100, and there has been an increase in plutonium production according to some reports.Recommend

hahaha……makes me laugh..whats the use of stockpiling arsenal when u cannot use them???
now its serious…none of us (nor india nor pakistan) can use them….the results would be disastrous…

as for balance of power….the existence of very nuclear arsenal in the subcontinent has disturbed it….we cant balance power by adding up more weapons….after all every bullet we create has someones name written on it…

i consider that even mother earth has grouped us into a single geographic region the SUBCONTINENT…..we defy her….we created hatred among us ourselves….and we both r paying for it till day….

u pile up 100 we will make twice then u thrice..where will it lead us…i dunno….i wonder in which scenario will our future generation wake up….poverty, hunger, illiteracy…

i m not afraid of pakistan building up its arsenal…its good…build it up….what i feel most scariest is of the future scenario of hunger and poverty and illitereacy and hatred in both the countries……Recommend

To all the Indians around here, stop preaching. There is enough hunger and deprivation in India. Your $ 256 Billion and 100 nuclear weapons have not yet fed 800 million properly, the remaining 300 million are barely above poverty line. If you have not been to Pakistan, come over and evaluate objectively, your jaws will drop to see how far ahead Pakistan is from India in terms infrastructure and general wellbeing. Yes you have democracy which you continue to drum about along with your faithful western allies but don’t forget you are down in the pit and have long ways to go before you can even qualify to be a developing nation. We know our problem and we will InshaAllah fix them. Another nation with so many problems and such useless leaders would have fallen apart. Don’t under estimate Paki power. Now go back and focus on sorting your own house rather than giving us wise ones.Recommend

@Usman Ahmad:
It is for you only.
we Indians are play over fission bomb,because world have more power full bomb(fusion-Hydrogen bomb and the most power full bomb is antimatter bomb,in it 99.99% mass converted though it is in developmental stage)
So we are looking for them.In those case I think Pak has not any experts.
Secondly how will they(Pak) detonate the bombs by missile!!!!!!!! funn
Our laser development is in the final stage( if any fault is seen we can import also).laser can hit the target with in 3000Km distance with the speed of light and the target has no escape.So the bomb will detonate in the the Pak’s aerospace.tab lane ka dena parjaga.
So we are not fearing the atom bomb at all.Creating more of it is only wastage of time.Thats why Pak arm force still decade away because they don’t look forward advanced technology earlier.Today war is fought by technology not not by the power of old weapon
So what Congratulation to pak atomic team from a Indian for century. Recommend

WOW.. Nice…
BUT.. Can it feed the hungry?
No?
Ok, can it teach the illiterate?
No?
Can it house the homeless?
No?
Can it cure the ill?
No?
Oh Darn… Wait wait, can it give any of us a better living standard?
No? Then what on Earth can it do?
Oh… it can obliterate my enemy and turn it to nuclear dust while rendering the ground infertile and the people in a few thousand miles radius mutated and/or dead because of radioactive fallout?..
Zabardast.. ALLAH OH AKBAR
MashAllah MashAllah.. ZABARDAST ..
Allah (SWT) hamain aisay hee TARAQEE KAY RASTAY PAR GAMZUN RAKHAY.. AMEEENRecommend

To all the Indians around here, stop preaching. There is enough hunger and deprivation in India. Your $ 256 Billion and 100 nuclear weapons have not yet fed 800 million properly, the remaining 300 million are barely above poverty line. If you have not been to Pakistan, come over and evaluate objectively, your jaws will drop to see how far ahead Pakistan is in terms infrastructure and general wellbeing. Yes you have democracy which you continue to drum about along with your faithful western allies but don’t forget you are down in the pit and have long ways to go before you can even qualify to be a developing nation. We know our problem and we will InshaAllah fix them. Another nation with so many problems and such useless leaders would have fallen apart. Don’t under estimate Paki power.  Now go back and focus on sorting your own house rather than giving us wise ones.Recommend

pakistan..i don’t understand the logic of building twice or thrice nuclear weapons…for us use of only one can wipe you out from world map…so better use the american money wisely…oh ya i remember..the recent flood had destroyed one fifth of your land… Lord….may good thinking start with pakistanis…Recommend

Either the two of you believe everything your politicians shove down your throats, or you think the whole world is stupid enough to believe your politicians. Firstly, China became a nuclear weapons state in 1964. India didn’t even conduct its first test (the Smiling Buddha) until 1974, which incidentally was unsuccessful. But even if we are to believe for one second that the 1974 test was successful, and India still had enough fissionable material to develop more warheads; for an entire decade you were NOT a weapon state. it took you 10 years to realize you needed a nuclear option against China? Or did you all go underground until the Smiling Buddha?

India truly became a weapons state in 1998 with Pokhran II. This was after the 1993 and 1996 Sino-Indian Bilateral Peace and Tranquility Accords. Unless you are now trying to tell the entire nation of Pakistan that India only signs peace accords for the sake of signing them but continues to distrust the other party, what exactly was the fear from China that lead to Pokhran II? Having settled your border disputes with the PRC, why do you need a nuclear option against them? China has NO history of invading other nations or attacking nations it did not have a border dispute with.

Stop trying to fool others and making yourselves look foolish in the process. Your nuclear weapons program is Pakistan specific and Pokhran II was a direct result of the uproar in India after the Pakistan ballistic missile test I alluded to earlier. Various factions of the BJP had claimed they would go nuclear if elected, but without the Pakistan missile test (which was a painted North Korean Rodong/Nodong missile), it would not have happened. You guys got suckered into showing your cards, and the whole region is now more dangerous. Congratulations! Recommend

@Arsalan J. Sheikh:
The wealthy and middle class muslims left india for pak in 1947, leaving the underclass muslims behind. They have several children each, and the cycle of poverty perpetuates itself. Some of these underclass muslims dream of going to pak, but pak refuses to accept them and there are long lines in front of pak embassy in delhi.
As for kashmir, you are only partially right to the extent that security forces trying to stabilise the situation have gone at it with a heavy hand. For example, i have visited kashmir in the early 1980’s and there was no issue or hostility, and most kashmiris have no great love for pak. Kashmir is a privileged state which gets additional federal govt assistance.
I would say, it is pakistan which has oppressed kashmir, and even worse, it has gifted a third of kashmir to china (aksai chin) – this is a bit like the story of 2 women claiming a baby to be each one’s own, and when the king orders that the baby be divided (physically!) to test the reaction, the fake mother says – yes!Recommend

Hundred or thousand! After reaching certain number they do not really matter, except to make you feel good. The consequences are not good for either nation (India or Pakistan) to be the first to use. It is better that both countries plan seriously on a war footing to provide food, water, power, shelter, education, health, security, and bridge the gap between have and have nots. Both countries will implode if they do not rearrange their priorities.Recommend

well why the indians should bother what we are doing. they have lot of cow urine to take care off. rest pakistani peace lovers please remember economics, poverty allievation and welfare things can only be done if country is there to house people. remeber 2001 standoff. with US behind their ass, indians should ask their brave SEENA why they were scared to come forward. remember the threats and boasts of LK Advani right after indian blasts. see the fate of AMAN KI ASHA,they have the capability and more important intentions to undo pakistan. so importance of economics notwithstanding, continous progress is necessary and should not be hampered due to any reason. indians are waiting for us to lower the gaurd, dont fall into the trap. as far as economics i think we should have to stop the corruption both monetary and of attitide. with the potentials we have we can do that and we should do that on priority. we should be ready for war to maitain peace. short coming in one field should not be at the cost of other equally important aspect. so we have two most important things to do: economics and defence. lets work for them in which ever capacity we can. long live pakistan, long live pakistanis. Recommend

Now it’s very plausible that this is intentionally cooked up. Washington Post is owned by News Corp., owned by Rupert Murdoch, who as we all know is Jewish (from his mother’s side). The editor of WP is Ezra Klein, a 20 or 30-something year-young Jewish boy. David Albright may be related to Madeline Albright, the powerful former US diplomat, born to a wealthy Jewish family Europe that fled the Nazis. She’s the one who once remarked, “What’s the use of having the finest military in the world if you can’t use it?” (exactly the point of 9/11).
And don’t forget David Headley (‘mastermind’ of Mumbai 26/11), the CIA agent who used to tour India with Israeli citizens. (If you’re not aware of this, just read these:)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6960182.ecehttp://www.indianexpress.com/news/hotel-owner-blames-cops-for-headleys-missin/552343/http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=625037
So I personally would not be surprised if this nuclear bomb thing was all cooked up as well.Recommend

Now it’s very plausible that this is intentionally cooked up. Washington Post is owned by News Corp., owned by Rupert Murdoch, who as we all know is Jewish (from his mother’s side). The editor of WP is Ezra Klein, a 20 or 30-something year-young Jewish boy. David Albright may be related to Madeline Albright, the powerful former US diplomat, born to a wealthy Jewish family Europe that fled the Nazis. She’s the one who once remarked, “What’s the use of having the finest military in the world if you can’t use it?” (exactly the point of 9/11). Recommend

Hi……..@Suleman..
It is sort of pressure that is putting on Pakistan for FMCT negotiation, because Pakistan is against FMCT (keep existing stockpile and prevent from further production of fissile material for only military purposes). Pakistan’s stance is “total disarmament” (ban on further production and also destroy existing stockpile). it is also relevant to Obama’s nuclear zero mission. now there are two reasons of publishing this article in Washington Post, first, is show to world that Pakistan a fragile state is making more and more bomb that could be theft from non state actors and can create difficulty for world. second, Pakistan has made more bomb than India, so now Pakistan should not block the negotiation of FMCT. but everyone knows actual facts and figures. Pakistan will never accept any discriminatory treaty Recommend

@Waris:
Dear Waris, as a nuclear analyst i’m strongly agree with you. these nuclear weapons are enough for sufficient nuclear deterrence, in this context u have given good example of china.i really appreciate u
SulemaRecommend

This is Pakistan and that was Russia and Pakistanies are reverent to their country and if they have to live hungry and starve to the dignity of the country, they will. its pride an honour for us. And if they have been asked to have rust of that bomb we will more than happy to do that rather being satiated by mint quality food or even slice of bread.Recommend

Well, so its a mild clue that years of poorness of nation has got some investment in form of strong stratefic defence sheild, but i think we should also consider the source of news as it can be a strutured campaign against our nuke arsenalsRecommend

Great, while people in our country are starving to death and others are being ravaged by extremists and adverse weather conditions, our government is spending money on nukes! My, how much we have prospered!Recommend

Do you think any power, including your buddies, China, will allow ANY S. Asian country to engage in a nuclear exchange? OR EVEN THREATEN TO? Please think VERY clearly, and understand where the Fissile Control Pact is headed.

Read Shahzad Chaudhry, an Air-Vice Marshal of PAF, or write him letters in Urdu if comprehending English is beyond you, ignorant, misinformed people.Recommend

I think there are little above 200 countries in the world so we must increase them up to 220 so that all may get equal share. More bombs means more electricity, jobs, food, education, health, improvement in water sector so on and so forth. Mubarak Ho.Recommend

Why bother allocating money to fight the enemy that is killing you when you can sit in an office and pat yourselves on the back for preparing to fight an imaginary enemy that has no interest in even talking to you?Recommend

Whats the point of being a nuclear power if you can’t solve energy problems with them! This goes for both India and Pakistan. Whether you have 100 weapons or 1000 it doesn’t matter. What will you do with them? Kill each other, threaten each other……either nation can’t do squat, with out America’s permission we all know that. Pakistan is being controlled by western lobbyist and America is bigging up India to go up against China.

It has always been India vs China in the race for Asian and ultimately global superiority.

I judge nations on Human Development and Industrial development. Frankly speaking we aren’t doing all that well, and India you need to deal with your 500 million people living below poverty. Thats twice our population.

I don’t even understand, why you fight when you should find solutions. If Pakistan is using terror as a buffer against India then India is not behind in supporting insurgencies in Balochistan.Recommend

i wonder how 100 or 110 secure atomic bombs can cuz such a stirr when plutonium selling on roads on India is not a matter of concern or for that matter thousands of atomic bombs or even hydrogen bombs produced by USA aren’t. The problem with all the countries is that they are too damm scared of Pakistan sorry but its true. So when Pakistan had 30 – 60 atomic bombs they were equally scared and CONCERNED as they are now. So People of the world, we have bigger problems like climate change, poverty, not having food safety n countries not respecting international law and infringing other countries sovereignty and people killing people to enforce their ideals. Lets talk about freedom of choice, religion and equality amongst people and countriesRecommend

@ kamal … watch out on who is committing suicide it might be india dun be so sure tht its Pakistan read world banks report n thn it would be more appropriate for you to comment something like this. Pakistan will survive and will rise above all others.
Pakistan Zindabad, Pakistan PaindabadRecommend

its great to hear that we have been so much advance in nuclear technolgy which is a good sign for independent country but besides this we have to resolve the basic problem of the people of country bcoz no country named without people therefore each and every problem of the people should be given top priority.Recommend

YOU DONT HAVE MISSILE SHIELD Kilo Ampere Linear Injector) be used in a High-Power Microwave gun, which could destroy incoming missiles and aircraft through soft-kill (destroying the electronic circuitry on the missile). However, weaponising such a system has many obstacles to overcome.Recommend

@PakistaniCanadian:
” But what excuse does India have to continuously spend a ridiculous amount of money and resources on your military and nuclear program whilst more than half a billion people languish in abject poverty?”
Simple answer : China.
And now even that country will be out of its wits to contain the monster it has created on its western border.
@waris
Agree with you 100%.
Education, Innovation and Economy are the new weapons to achieve superpower status. Have doubt? Look at South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia…Recommend

Its US strategy to downplay Pakistan smart arsenal in order to justify its civil nulear deal with India and exposing Pakistan as a country with agresssive designs. It’s amazing to note that US and the Indians always link Pakistan nuclear deterrent with Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda that pose security threat. They forgot that Pakistan has secured its stockpile against the second super Power of the world’s invasion in Afghanistan; Russia. The Americans and Indians should rather look the amount of nuclear waste they are contributing to increase nuke pollution of the world and stop drumming up their wishful fears. Almost sixty percent of the world nuclear pollution is made by the Americans.Recommend

Congratulations Military! Dream big !!! We are proud of you. Why not 10,000 nukes next?
The next inevitable floods are most welcome as long as you Generals get your toys, boys.
Do not worry, “Egypt” will not happen in Pakistan. No need to spend on education, health care or rural development. What for? The public is happy to eat grass as long as you get you toys for MAD (mutually assured destruction): the public are just dumb driven animals doped and drugged with religious fervor. Recommend

@zara:
The countries are scared of Pakistan because its Army is irresponsible. religiously driven and do not have a rational outlook of world. The Pakistani establishment resorts to blackmailing international community ” Give us Kashmir or else.., Give us aid or we sell the designs to…etc etc.”. Now do you get it?Recommend

@All those people who were @Usman Ahmad
I just wondered why were there no comments from Indians. Certainly, all i wanted to do was to read some interesting comments (read bhashans, lectures) by our neighbours from across the border. Alas, they mistook me. They felt as if I were teasing them – which I was not ;-> – and started behaving in their typical manners. Indians who write comments on Pakistani websites are mostly reactionary, paranoid and overly self-assured. I am happy I really managed to teased them all. As for the questions, bhashans, and advices put forward by my fellows, I will certainly not lend a reply to them because I never wrote my real views on this news. Recommend

@Usman Ahmad,
My comments were not posted by the mentor. Some of my compatriots too might have met the same faith. In the last 15 days or some, there seems to be some change in ETs policies regarding the posts by Indians.
This probably explains the absence of Anoop too.Recommend

They first they simply hated us for existing, the hated for trying to build the bomb, after that hated us for exploding it, now they hate us because we have more than Britain and France. When will they stop hating us?Recommend

Pakistan nuclear technology is much better than India which depicts that we have talent.Instead of being any jealousy felt by indian commentators.These commentators said their scientist to improve their atomic technology.
PAKISTAN ZINDABADRecommend

increase more nuclear power, as u need more 2 destroy us…………
but we need 4-5 of them(as pakistan is a small country)….
as your bhutto said “we will eat grass but we will make neuclear weapons”
but who will eat grass its not u but the millions of poor people in ur country..Recommend

@Indian:
Hello dear Indian as u know that the negotiation of FMCT is continue on the platform of CD, and i hope u would know that Pakistan is only one country which is opposing FMCT negotiation, for that reason international community especially world media has been become against Pakistan. It is also a trifle of Washington post that pakistan is making rapidly growing its nuclear arsenal quantity but it is not true, its sole purpose is put pressure on Pakistan in order to Pakistan agree on FMCT negotiation. dear the purpose of nuclear arsenal is deter to war rather than to fight war. Pakistan’s nuclear purpose is only deter to war rather than fight war with India. so My dear Indian must think, but with cool mind rather than emotionally.
Malik Suleman. . Recommend

India has a huge thorium ores, about 25% of the worlds thorium ores exist in India, while thorium cannot instantiate the chain reaction by itself, for that purpose uranium pillets r required to ignite the reaction, Indians r using their uranium pilllets to construct more powerful futuristic thorium based weapons, already a 500 megawatt thorium is under construction, read the article carefully
“While Pakistan has produced more nuclear-armed weapons, India is believed to have larger existing stockpiles of such fissile material for future weapons. That long-term Indian advantage, Pakistan has charged, was further enhanced by a 2008 US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement. The administration has deflected Pakistan’s demands for a similar deal.”Recommend